Chapter 7

Storyboards

This seventh chapter will introduce a new way to create an app quickly and visually. First, some views will be laid out and you will see how they can be connected without writing code, and you will get some neat transition animations for free. This new technique was first brought to the public's attention when Apple announced that they would be introducing a new and never-before-seen feature called Storyboards, which would be built into Xcode. It would allow the easy layout of workflow apps that use navigation and tab bars to transition between views.

Apple went on to say that the new storyboards would manage the view controllers for you, while visually creating an easy to manage geospatial view of your project. It would ...

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